The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Ogni nostra cognitione prÄ«cipia da sentimÄ“ti. All our knowledge has its origin in our preceptions. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“...the love of anything is the offspring of knowledge, love being more fervent in proportion as knowledge is more certain. And this… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image